This certificate program will benefit those who wish to gain a deeper knowledge of the growing sustainability management sector. The lessons learned in the four courses of this certificate can be used to develop, manage, and improve manufacturing processes, commercial products, and corporate practices for improving the long-term sustainability of a company. Attendees will be better positioned to contribute to their organization's financial wellbeing while alleviating the negative environmental impact of their operation. The program is designed for anyone who wants to make sustainability an important part of their organization's operations - no prior background or experience in sustainability is necessary.

Participants in this certificate program will learn to:

• Understand the social, economic, and legal issues which drive sustainability development.
• Describe the relationship between resiliency and sustainability and give examples of resilient engineering designs.
• Understand indicators and metrics used to gauge environmental impact of a project.
• Apply tools to determine how a project and its sustainability characteristics may positively (or negatively) contribute to human health and the environment.
• Illustrate how a carbon footprint can be calculated and how carbon emissions can be reduced and/or offset.
• Demonstrate how life cycle assessment can be used to measure the environmental sustainability of products, processes or services.
• Describe how environmental health risk assessment is a necessary step for developing methods of risk management.
• Illustrate different methods of sustainable waste management.
• Describe how the circular economy can support sustainability.
• Illustrate how green building concepts can impact sustainability.
• Describe the main parts of a sustainability assessment for a specific project: environmental, economic and social.